lucubration
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In China, they were taken as announcements that Japan has about completed its plans for the absorption of China, and that the lucubration preliminary to operations of swallowing are about to begin.
From China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference by John Dewey
The real master of this art will show his skill by the great number of times in which he will manage to say "We" in the course of his lucubration.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 by Various
In 1845 his famous poem, The Raven, came out, and in 1848 Eureka, a Prose Poem, a pseudo-scientific lucubration.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
How was it that the capitalist had put his signature to such a lucubration?
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
He spoke some French, perhaps also Italian; and if he had been at a University, which did not frequently happen, he might be able to recite a Latin lucubration.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
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